Francesco Bombassei, Senior Technical Program Manager at Google, presented at SlatorCon and discussed AutoML Translate, how ever accelerating computing power impacts development, and the human and technological challenges in machine learning. Continue reading
France-based language service provider Ubiqus has acquired boutique local rival Gedev, a specialist in aerospace and defense translation. Continue reading
Hundreds of interpreters threaten to quit working for Denmark’s judicial system unless the new sole provider of a giant USD 80 million contract revisits the terms offered to linguists. Continue reading
Revenues at UK-based language service provider TranslateMedia for the financial year 2018 declined by 5% to just over GBP 7m. EBITDA fell on the back of tighter gross margins. Continue reading
Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging internal and external stakeholders to get onboard. Continue reading
Fast-growing German machine translation provider DeepL sells 13.6% stake to Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as usage continues to accelerate. Continue reading
BTI Studios has acquired LaBibi and Multimedia Network, two Italian dubbing studios based in Rome, as the company continues its acquisition strategy of establishing a presence in all of the major dubbing markets. Continue reading
RWS nearly doubled in size in its financial year 2018 boosted by Moravia and a solid organic performance across its five divisions. Further selective acquisitions in the cards for 2019. Continue reading
Private equity firm CataCap Partner and LanguageWire Deputy Chairman tells SlatorCon Zurich 2018 why CataCap invested in the Danish language service provider and decided to back its recent acquisition of Xplanation. Continue reading
Pharma and biotech giant Roche’s Claudine Nick outlined the internal and external complexities of localizing for this highly regulated industry and highlighted the value-add of having an internal language services team. Continue reading
In November 2018, three EU tenders were issued relating to translation. Two tenders call for 225 contractors for translation into multiple languages and the third tender, worth EUR 225,000, requires translation support for an EU-funded contract in Azerbaijan. Continue reading
Language technology startup Lilt has introduced a new “human-in-the-loop” model, providing language services to their end-customers, but still rejects the LSP label. Continue reading
Swiss Parliament elects former conference interpreter Karin Keller-Sutter as one the country’s seven Federal Councillors. Keller-Sutter’s language proficiency seen as one of her key advantages over rival candidates. Continue reading
SlatorCon Zurich 2018 featured language industry experts from big tech, life sciences, language services, private equity and investment banking, hosting speakers from Google, Roche, Ubiqus, LanguageWire and Raymond James, as well as Slator’s own Florian Faes. Continue reading
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology. Continue reading
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